BRL-CAD
[EVERYONE] Get familiar with our BRL-CAD community resources
This task will help you get set up for other GCI tasks with BRL-CAD. It's a 10-step checklist of things to do. Pay attention, there's a quiz at the end. ;-)
- read this contributor's guide to BRL-CAD: http://write.flossmanuals.net/contributors-guide-to-brl-cad/
- browse all sections of the BRL-CAD website at http://brlcad.org especially the Docs section (it's a wiki)
- go to http://beta.brlcad.org scroll to the bottom and subscribe to our (read-only) brlcad-news mailing list 4a. download and install Zulip, join the #Google Code-In channel on brlcad.zulipchat.com 4b. alternatively or if you want, join #brlcad on irc.freenode.net using an IRC client (see http://brlcad.org/wiki/IRC)
- browse BRL-CAD's current tasks (more get added throughout GCI), find a favorite
- say hello on zulip or irc, and tell us your favorite (e.g., "Hi I'm Jane, participating in GCI. The Appleseed project tasks sound really interesting."
- browse our Sourceforge project pages at https://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/
- check out our Facebook page (images especially) at http://fb.me/brlcad
Quiz questions:
- A. BRL-CAD is correctly pronounced as "[WHAT]"?
- B. the 3 CSG Boolean operations are Union, Intersection, and [WHAT]?
- C. BRL-CAD main repository has between a: 0-7000, b: 7001-70000, or c: 70001-100000 commits
- Bonus: BRL-CAD's database format is version [WHAT]?
SUBMIT a screenshot of you introducing yourself on Zulip or IRC
SUBMIT your quiz answers
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